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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>
To: Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] CLTV/CSV/etc. deployment considerations due to XT/Not-BitcoinXT miners
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 12:31:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDqRycGY2diXoTvL+d5JE0EgccgGdiQdgWj8c_9SMokJEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADJgMztmgUzy70sJ+_Xj-OFe-kvEi6eSAYoGTb4yg-yGQ9u1dw@mail.gmail.com>

I don't think just using version=4 for cltv and friends would be a
problem if it wasn't for the XT/nonXT issue.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Jorge Timón
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Seems like 3 is something we want to do no matter what and therefore
>> is the "most future-proof" solution.
>> I wonder if I can help with that (and I know there's more people that
>> would be interested).
>> Where's the current "non-full" nVersion bits implementation?
>> Why implement a "non-full" version instead of going with the full
>> implementation directly?
>
>
> There is a simple answer to this, convenience: versionbits has not been
> implemented yet, and I believe the BIP is still in review stage. As it seems
> likely the remaining locktime pull requests will be ready by or before the
> next major release, we need a deployment method if versionbits is not ready
> (which is unlikely because no-one appears to be working on it at the
> moment). Pieter indicated he is OK with another IsSuperMajority() rollout in
> the interim. Personally, I dont think we should let perfection be the enemy
> of progress here because at the end of the day, the deployment method is
> less important than the actual featureset being proposed.
>
> That said, the features in the next soft fork proposal are all related and
> best deployed as one featureset softfork, but moving forward, versionbits
> seems essential to be able to roll out multiple features in parallel without
> waiting for activation and enforcement each time.
>
>
>
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-19  5:50 [bitcoin-dev] CLTV/CSV/etc. deployment considerations due to XT/Not-BitcoinXT miners Peter Todd
2015-08-19  6:10 ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-19  9:34   ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-19 10:20     ` Btc Drak
2015-08-19 10:31       ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2015-08-19 13:15         ` Btc Drak
2015-08-19 13:24           ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 17:25             ` Btc Drak
2015-08-19 18:17               ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 12:36     ` Matt Corallo
2015-08-19 13:22   ` Tier Nolan
2015-08-19 14:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2015-08-19 16:32     ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-19 21:03       ` Peter Todd
2015-08-20 17:32 ` jl2012
2015-08-20 17:42   ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-27 22:11     ` Btc Drak
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-18  1:22 [bitcoin-dev] BIP: Using Median time-past as endpoint for locktime calculations Thomas Kerin
2015-08-19  1:04 ` Peter Todd
2015-08-19  1:08   ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-08-21 11:13     ` Thomas Kerin
2015-08-22  0:57       ` Peter Todd
2015-08-27 22:08         ` Btc Drak
2015-08-27 23:19           ` Peter Todd
2015-08-28 15:27             ` jl2012

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